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Work culture in the western world is broken.

We face so many issues because when it comes down to it, humans spend most of their time in very cold, disconnected working environments that are designed to break your soul and turn you into a drone.

I think what should be remembered is that swdev is a high demand job, and you should have high demands and standards of yourself and your needs.

The author admits to hiding away her flaws as to not show weakness, this is the wrong approach. Admit your weaknesses, be honest with yourself, your colleagues and your boss. If they don't understand or reciprocate, tell them to go get fucked.

Become a freelancer or consultant.

No I mean, rather than using Dropbox for dotfiles, use a bare git repo to manage them

Use a git bare repository, it works really well for this purpose.

I went the opposite direction, Ubuntu to arch.

I think that archlinuxs advantage is that it's minimalistic, the philosophy is simple, you know what is running on your computer and generally why.

Tinkering with arch itself isn't that time consuming because the package management is so incredibly good, along with the AUR and wiki. These are invaluable.

I really do think the difficulty is overhyped though, it's really not hard at all.

T480 archlinux and kde

Yeah, not in Australia though.

God, as an Australian it irritates me so much to continually see Australia screw itself over for short-term gain, rather than long term vision, time and time again. This mentality shows that Australia is not ready to be leaders, or competitive in many of tomorrow's industries.

A real shame.

I moved to Germany many years ago.

Not sure why this is downvoted. He is absolutely right.

Whilst rich people on hacker News get to eat quality produce, most people aren't as fortunate.

They are exposed to higher levels of pollution. I mean, the west basically dumps their trash in South East Asia now with little care or regard. Do you think this doesn't pollute the land, animals and people?

All single use plastics should be banned, period.

If you want to buy a drink, bring a reusable bottle to the shop and fill it up from a dispensery or use glass bottles.

The culture simply needs to change - its a habitual problem, not a technical one. We have the technology.

I think Germany has their Pfand (plastic/glass deposit) system working really really well, although admittingly the plastic gets incinerated. I don't know why more countries don't adopt these methods or similar. Homeless people pick them up, and get 25c for it, then the bottles are washed and reused. Fantastic. We should invest in optimising these ideas so they become more ubiquitous and cheaper than plastic.

When scrolling on Instagram, 1/5 posts is an advertisement. The more you scroll it seems to become more frequent and tend to 1/3 posts.

That's a lot of ads.

It really depends on his theology. I'd agree if he succumbed to a prescribed framework of dogma. But for those freethinkers seeking inner truth there are no shortcuts.

I think it's invalid to say he casts it in the "too hard basket" because he chooses theology. On the contrary, I think you cast it into the too hard basket because you're so steadfast on believing in the rational.

Nearly everything about society today is simply wrong.

Disrupt, the time is now!

He should be spending his money on cleaning up the trash and pollution his company produces directly or indirectly and then helping shift to greener ways of life.

At this point in time it seems highly unlikely that we can ditch Earth for somewhere else. We must take responsibility now and execute radical change.

It starts with men like Bezos.

Same